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mm: unexport __get_user_pages()

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This patch unexports the low-level __get_user_pages() function.

Recent refactoring of the get_user_pages* functions allow flags to be
passed through get_user_pages() which eliminates the need for access to
this function from its one user, kvm.

We can see that the two calls to get_user_pages() which replace
__get_user_pages() in kvm_main.c are equivalent by examining their call
stacks:

  get_user_page_nowait():
    get_user_pages(start, 1, flags, page, NULL)
    __get_user_pages_locked(current, current->mm, start, 1, page, NULL, NULL,
			    false, flags | FOLL_TOUCH)
    __get_user_pages(current, current->mm, start, 1,
		     flags | FOLL_TOUCH | FOLL_GET, page, NULL, NULL)

  check_user_page_hwpoison():
    get_user_pages(addr, 1, flags, NULL, NULL)
    __get_user_pages_locked(current, current->mm, addr, 1, NULL, NULL, NULL,
			    false, flags | FOLL_TOUCH)
    __get_user_pages(current, current->mm, addr, 1, flags | FOLL_TOUCH, NULL,
		     NULL, NULL)

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-24 10:57:25 +01:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 272ddc8b37
commit 0d73175982
4 changed files with 6 additions and 13 deletions
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@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp)
return PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page);
}
long __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
static long __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
unsigned int foll_flags, struct page **pages,
struct vm_area_struct **vmas, int *nonblocking)